The Cloud Foundry Java buildpack now supports overriding inbuilt configuration through the use of well-named environment variables! This means you can tweak all manner of the default behavior without needing to fork the buildpack!

Good news! Spring XD 1.1.1 is released! It includes improved performance and offset management when using Kafka message bus, support for Spark’s streaming reliable receiver, Kryo serialization improvements, RabbitMQ auto-cleanup options and a Sqoop example.

GORM is a super powerful ORM tool that makes ORM simple by leveraging the flexibility and expressiveness of a dynamic language like Groovy. With GORM developers get access to all of the power and flexibility of an ORM tool like Hibernate without any of the complexity.

Groovy has a very easy learning curve for Java developers, so many people become Groovy users without realizing all it can do. This presentation will examine features of Groovy that can make your life easier once you're past the initial adoption stage. Prerequisite: Some Groovy knowledge

Building an Enterprise Application Stack means the necessity to have a service tier that can scale to the demands of business. This talk will discuss the approach to developing a scalable enterprise architecture, and will demonstrate implementations based on the variety of technologies available from the Groovy ecosystem, including Grails, Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring Integration.

Generate applications based on best architecture practices like: Service Layer, Repository Layer

New scaffolding model that generates a fully functional responsive UI based on jQuery and Bootstrap.

Improve extensibility and increase the collaboration of the Spring Roo project:

We will create the “Roo Marketplace”: the alternative to Roobot, easier to maintain and available for everyone, a place to find and keep track on third party addons and Roo Addon Suites.

A “Roo Addon Suite” is a great way to package and distribute a set of add-ons together, for example if you want to distribute Roo custom distributions. Roo Addon Suite is based on OSGi R5 Subsystems that provides a really convenient deployment model, without compromising the modularity of Roo.

Spring WS has just released version 2.2.1.RELEASE. This is a patch upgrade with no breaking API or behavior changes. I recommend upgrading to ensure you have the latest fixes. For a listing of completed issues see the report below: